Edinburgh! Take a literary tour of some kind.

Iceland. Never been but it looks cool.

No pun intended.

i love edinburgh! it has this awesome mix of old architecture with a new/modern atmosphere.

iceland sounds fun. damn eyjafjallajökull probably gave it a bad rep.

have any of you done couchsurfing before? any tips?

You should probably do something in Portugal. It's looking a little lonely over there.

portugal would be awesome! lisbon looks beautiful. if i can get a cheap flight perhaps i will. :)

You need to get Wales coloured in! That's a pretty well coloured map though :)

I'd really recommend Greece too. A few Greek islands would be wonderful. Santorini is lovely, as is Naxos.

yeah! i wanted to go to wales but it never ended up happening. greece sounds awesome! i'll try to work it in. so many possibilities!

Oh, man, this sounds awesome!

I'll be in Bulgaria at that time. Let's have a meetup.

damn it, I'm leaving London on the 23rd.

As for places to go, eh you can give wales a miss, you've been in the northwest and its not a whole lot different (ok cardif is but apart from that theres not a whole lot to see), I say go to amsterdam or the The Netherlands in general or you could head over to eastern europe my parents just got back from Prague, Bratislava, Budapest & Vienna and they loved all of those places, hell of a lot of history and a lot of awesome things to do.

bulgaria is so fun to say! when will you be there?

ahh bad timing, phil. :( yeah cardiff looks cool in pictures. i've been to amsterdam, prague, budapest, and vienna and liked them all. prague and budapest are among my favorites.

I'll be in Bulgaria May 15th-29th, after a short stop (like, fewer than 48 hours) in Paris.

if you like drinking and sausage go to germany. everyone there is drunk all day. this is based on a single day in munich which appeared to be some kind of festival, but possibly wasn't. although there was fireworks.

oh too bad, i'll be in london and sweden during that time. will you still be traveling after you leave bulgaria?

definitely going to germany. not for the drinking and sausages necessarily, but i didn't get a chance to go the other times i've been to europe. plan on going to berlin and munich.

How many times have you been to Europe in total?

this will be my 4th time. i probably should have gone to asia or somewhere else instead but i wanted to see friends i haven't seen in a year. i went for about a month when i was 15 on a group trip, then for a week or so when i was 17 on a school trip, and then lived in england for a semester last year and traveled some then.

I'm jealous.

Don't let any Welsh people hear you say that, Phil! If you go to Wales, you can see the longest train station name in the world.

sweeet. do they also have the world's largest ball of yarn?

You should go to Andorra because that little dot is bothering me.

it is pretty pesky.

Meh, I live 30 minutes over the welsh boarder north wales is a miserable place so maybe my opinion is a little biased.

no one will mess with my hamburger.

abi and other london people, are you free for a drink on the 25th?

also, is Gloucester Place(BakerSt) a sketchy place to be at night?

I head back home on the 29th.

Should be an adventure. First time in Europe, and I'm spending most of my time in Bulgaria, an American tourist haven if ever there was one.

I'm around on the 25th. It's a date!

Gloucester Road is fine :)

Or Gloucester Place! Baker Street is fine, and a great location for a base. It's super easy to get around town from there.

Stockholm is amazing. Let me know if you go there and I'll tell you some cool things to see and do.

And if you come to Vienna I'm up for hanging out.

I would suggest Prague, but can't tell whether you've been there or not. Can you provide a list of places you've been - it's not 100% clear from your map!

I'm in for 25th too

For an authentic Finnish/Swedish working class experience, take a ferry cruise from Stockholm to Finland. Tax-free booze! Karaoke! Cheesy lounge singers!

Go to Ireland. Find a hill (not too steep), and roll down it.
I've wanted to do that all my life.
Silly...yes. Original...nah.
Enjoyable...



...let me know. I'd say so.

^Agree. But I don't know if I would recommend it :D

I mean the ferry cruise from Stockholm to Finland, that is.

Also, find some authentic German Ale/Beer (if you can). I hear it's divine.

Currywurst in Berlin!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst

I typed out an answer yesterday and it got lost which kinda sucks.

Short answer is: you have been to the countries I've been to so I can't really recommend anywhere new (except maybe Malta?) first hand. But, I've always wanted to go Germany to Sweden or vice versa via Copenhagen. It just makes sense, so don't cut Copenhagen out.

There's an über small town on the edge of Niedersachsen I liked quite a bit called Wolfenbüttel. It has a really good ice cream place.

i leave in Rome, so i can say Rome..but love Berlin and Cophenhagen..a little tour to Amesterdam and back to Paris.

i leave in Rome, so i can say Rome..but love Berlin and Cophenhagen..a little tour to Amesterdam and back to Paris.

abi & david - sounds good! my bus will be leaving from baker street that night so possibly somewhere close to there or easy to get from there? let me know a good spot. :)

stu- yep, i will be in stockholm. i'll be visiting a friend in uppsala but i'll definitely visit stockholm. any tips would be appreciated.

david-
list of cities* i have been:
london
manchester
liverpool
edinburgh
stirling
dublin
amsterdam
prague
budapest
vienna
krakow
geneva
madrid
barcelona
paris
avignon
lyon
monaco
rome
florence
pisa
bologna
milan
sicily
malta

*some aren't actually cities

morkki & goto- why would you or would you not recommend the ferry cruise?

jeremy- i will do my best to roll down a hill in ireland while drinking an authentic german beer.

sam!- i love ice cream. that sounds delicious.

mr vela- i really want to make copenhagen work. if it's not too expensive from uppsala/stockholm and then to get to germany after then i'm going to make it happen.

Baker Street is good for me - and that's what matters, right? I'm including Aled in these drinks too, if he ever decides to come back from the US.

I'll look in to a good place to meet :)

The trip it self is rather nice - beautiful archipelago and Stockholm is best seen from the water.
The problem will be your fellow ship mates :D
No, I don't know. I have only done the trip ones and all I remember is a lot of drunk people, mostly old people. But this was over ten years ago and maybe things have changed.

Oh, see. You did go to Malta.

I would say berlin. It's one of my favourite cities in Europe next to barcelona.